tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-89153391528139643212024-02-02T09:48:56.749-08:00Out of the Psychic ClosetExploring the ways the paranormal works in our lives...Toby Fesler Heathcottehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09304240570140750270noreply@blogger.comBlogger64125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8915339152813964321.post-86194367602878279392020-11-07T08:09:00.002-08:002020-11-07T08:09:58.297-08:00Praise for Women Wronged, edited by Heathcotte<p>Finalist in Guides, 2020 New Mexico-Arizona Book Awards</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Runner-up in Compilations, 2020 New York Book Festival</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">“This is a strong collection of essays. Each story weaves a
tale of a woman overcoming some sort of oppression, such as sexism or
discrimination, in their lives. The editor does a fantastic job of curating
these essays. They certainly all have similar themes, but they each tell a
unique story that adds to the overall collection.”<b> <o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Judge, 27th Annual Writer’s Digest Self-Published Book
Awards.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">“Despite their trials, however, the authors provide hope and
understanding to women today who are going through their own ordeals. Their
messages spoke volumes - being a woman is not just about being beautiful,
conforming to how others think you should be, or being less than others. I
think these messages can reach more than just women and I am sure it can
inspire many individuals.”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Shannon Winings for
Readers' Favorite<o:p></o:p></p>Toby Fesler Heathcottehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09304240570140750270noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8915339152813964321.post-79714721262244303922020-10-24T14:49:00.000-07:002020-10-24T14:49:01.399-07:00Women Wronged Wins 2020 New Mexico Arizona Book Award<p> <span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: inherit; font-size: 22.5px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Women Wronged was a finalist in the guide category of 2020 New Mexico-Arizona Book Awards, I'm proud to say. Buy it on Amazon.</span></p><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="9qcp8" data-offset-key="r4g2-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 22.5px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="r4g2-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span class="py34i1dx" style="color: var(--blue-link); font-family: inherit;">https://www.amazon.com/dp/B084Q3QM1V/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=women%20wronged&qid=1581470997&s=digital-text&sr=1-1&fbclid=IwAR28zPZ3p620K1GRlQc28ARMcY7cwQOUokikYnQ5k4I60NbRgqU2UcZL3P0</span></div></div>Toby Fesler Heathcottehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09304240570140750270noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8915339152813964321.post-54797734368943903672020-07-20T14:35:00.004-07:002020-07-20T14:35:44.875-07:00Harriet, the 2019 Movie Review<br />
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<i>Harriet</i>, the 2019 movie directed
by Kasi Lemmons, stars Cynthia Erivo, and tells “…the extraordinary tale of
Harriet Tubman's escape from slavery and transformation into one of America's
greatest heroes, whose courage, ingenuity, and tenacity freed hundreds of
slaves and changed the course of history.” I quote from IMDB.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I watched the movie on HBO last night
and found <i>Harriet</i> exciting in two ways: first I love historical fiction and
second I love examples of psychic experiences that come true and have impact on
people’s lives.<o:p></o:p></div>
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When she was a youth, Harriet’s slave
owner clubbed her in the head, giving her a concussion. After that she fell
into a trance from time to time and awoke with psychic information, that is,
she knew what was going to happen before it did. This ability was well known
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When she ran away, her psychic
guidance led her to safety. Then she embarked on many expeditions to free others,
who followed her psychic sense into the free states and escape from slavery.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Harriet described her visions as “talks
with God” and trusted God and her visions completely. They empowered her in
profound ways, helped her lead an army regiment, and helped change the course of
history. She was truly an American Joan of Arc.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The movie is dramatic, informative, and
exciting. It is well worth your time to watch and imagine what it was like to
be her.<i><o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<span style="mso-font-width: 105%;">Women<span style="letter-spacing: -1.0pt;"> </span>Wronged:<span style="letter-spacing: -1.0pt;"> </span>Discrimination,<span style="letter-spacing: -1.0pt;"> </span>Repression,<span style="letter-spacing: -1.0pt;"> </span>&<span style="letter-spacing: -1.0pt;"> </span>Sexism<span style="letter-spacing: -1.0pt;">
</span>from<span style="letter-spacing: -1.0pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -1.0pt;"> </span>Sixties<span style="letter-spacing: -.95pt;">
</span>to<span style="letter-spacing: -1.0pt;"> </span>Now<span style="letter-spacing: -1.0pt;"> </span>is<span style="letter-spacing: -1.0pt;"> </span>a<span style="letter-spacing: -1.0pt;"> </span>collection<span style="letter-spacing: -1.0pt;"> </span>of stories from multiple women. Edited, and partly written by
Toby Heathcotte, each story details another<span style="letter-spacing: -1.05pt;">
</span>woman's<span style="letter-spacing: -1.0pt;"> </span>account<span style="letter-spacing: -1.0pt;"> </span>of<span style="letter-spacing: -1.0pt;"> </span>growing<span style="letter-spacing: -1.0pt;"> </span>up<span style="letter-spacing: -1.0pt;"> </span>in<span style="letter-spacing: -1.0pt;"> </span>a<span style="letter-spacing: -1.0pt;"> </span>world<span style="letter-spacing: -1.0pt;"> </span>of<span style="letter-spacing: -1.0pt;"> </span>discrimination,<span style="letter-spacing: -1.0pt;"> </span>repression,<span style="letter-spacing: -1.0pt;"> </span>and<span style="letter-spacing: -1.0pt;"> </span>sexism.<span style="letter-spacing: -1.0pt;"> </span>Each one shares how they were perceived
solely for certain qualities, like beauty, or for what they lacked, namely male
anatomical parts. They missed jobs and opportunities because they were women.
Family and co-workers felt entitled to their bodies. They were looked at as
individuals with<span style="letter-spacing: -.6pt;"> </span>no<span style="letter-spacing: -.6pt;"> </span>intellect.<span style="letter-spacing: -.6pt;"> </span>Even<span style="letter-spacing: -.6pt;"> </span>today,<span style="letter-spacing: -.55pt;"> </span>women's<span style="letter-spacing: -.6pt;">
</span>rights<span style="letter-spacing: -.55pt;"> </span>are<span style="letter-spacing: -.6pt;"> </span>still<span style="letter-spacing: -.6pt;"> </span>lacking<span style="letter-spacing: -.6pt;"> </span>and<span style="letter-spacing: -.6pt;"> </span>incidents<span style="letter-spacing: -.55pt;"> </span>such<span style="letter-spacing: -.6pt;"> </span>as<span style="letter-spacing: -.6pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.55pt;"> </span>above<span style="letter-spacing: -.6pt;"> </span>are prevalent. Where do we go from<span style="letter-spacing: -1.0pt;"> </span>here?</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-font-width: 105%;">Women Wronged by Toby Heathcotte is a great read,
especially given the increase in women's rights<span style="letter-spacing: -.8pt;"> </span>advocates<span style="letter-spacing: -.75pt;"> </span>and<span style="letter-spacing: -.75pt;"> </span>movements.<span style="letter-spacing: -.75pt;"> </span>I<span style="letter-spacing: -.75pt;"> </span>loved<span style="letter-spacing: -.75pt;"> </span>how<span style="letter-spacing: -.8pt;"> </span>articulated<span style="letter-spacing: -.75pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.7pt;"> </span>stories<span style="letter-spacing: -.75pt;"> </span>were<span style="letter-spacing: -.75pt;"> </span>and<span style="letter-spacing: -.8pt;"> </span>how<span style="letter-spacing: -.75pt;"> </span>they<span style="letter-spacing: -.7pt;"> </span>explained feelings<span style="letter-spacing: -.55pt;"> </span>so<span style="letter-spacing: -.5pt;"> </span>well.<span style="letter-spacing: -.5pt;"> </span>I<span style="letter-spacing: -.55pt;"> </span>was<span style="letter-spacing: -.5pt;"> </span>angry,<span style="letter-spacing: -.5pt;"> </span>sad,<span style="letter-spacing: -.55pt;"> </span>and<span style="letter-spacing: -.5pt;"> </span>ready<span style="letter-spacing: -.5pt;"> </span>to<span style="letter-spacing: -.5pt;"> </span>fight<span style="letter-spacing: -.5pt;"> </span>for<span style="letter-spacing: -.5pt;"> </span>them.<span style="letter-spacing: -.5pt;"> </span>While<span style="letter-spacing: -.5pt;"> </span>I<span style="letter-spacing: -.5pt;"> </span>may<span style="letter-spacing: -.5pt;"> </span>not<span style="letter-spacing: -.55pt;"> </span>have<span style="letter-spacing: -.5pt;"> </span>lived<span style="letter-spacing: -.5pt;"> </span>during the<span style="letter-spacing: -.7pt;"> </span>same<span style="letter-spacing: -.7pt;"> </span>time<span style="letter-spacing: -.7pt;"> </span>period<span style="letter-spacing: -.7pt;"> </span>as<span style="letter-spacing: -.7pt;"> </span>some<span style="letter-spacing: -.7pt;"> </span>of<span style="letter-spacing: -.7pt;"> </span>these<span style="letter-spacing: -.7pt;"> </span>women,<span style="letter-spacing: -.7pt;"> </span>I<span style="letter-spacing: -.7pt;"> </span>found<span style="letter-spacing: -.75pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.65pt;"> </span>stories<span style="letter-spacing: -.7pt;"> </span>relatable.<span style="letter-spacing: -.7pt;"> </span>As<span style="letter-spacing: -.75pt;"> </span>a<span style="letter-spacing: -.7pt;"> </span>woman,<span style="letter-spacing: -.7pt;"> </span>I<span style="letter-spacing: -.7pt;"> </span>have lived<span style="letter-spacing: -.65pt;"> </span>through<span style="letter-spacing: -.6pt;"> </span>aspects<span style="letter-spacing: -.6pt;"> </span>of<span style="letter-spacing: -.65pt;"> </span>each<span style="letter-spacing: -.65pt;"> </span>story<span style="letter-spacing: -.6pt;"> </span>and<span style="letter-spacing: -.65pt;"> </span>each<span style="letter-spacing: -.6pt;"> </span>touched<span style="letter-spacing: -.6pt;"> </span>my<span style="letter-spacing: -.65pt;"> </span>heart.<span style="letter-spacing: -.6pt;"> </span>Despite<span style="letter-spacing: -.65pt;">
</span>their<span style="letter-spacing: -.6pt;"> </span>trials,<span style="letter-spacing: -.55pt;"> </span>however,<span style="letter-spacing: -.65pt;">
</span>the authors provide hope and understanding to women today who are going
through their own ordeals. Their messages spoke volumes - being a woman is not
just about being beautiful, conforming<span style="letter-spacing: -.75pt;"> </span>to<span style="letter-spacing: -.65pt;"> </span>how<span style="letter-spacing: -.7pt;"> </span>others<span style="letter-spacing: -.7pt;"> </span>think<span style="letter-spacing: -.7pt;"> </span>you<span style="letter-spacing: -.7pt;"> </span>should<span style="letter-spacing: -.7pt;"> </span>be,<span style="letter-spacing: -.7pt;"> </span>or<span style="letter-spacing: -.75pt;"> </span>being<span style="letter-spacing: -.7pt;"> </span>less<span style="letter-spacing: -.7pt;"> </span>than<span style="letter-spacing: -.65pt;"> </span>others.<span style="letter-spacing: -.7pt;">
</span>I<span style="letter-spacing: -.75pt;"> </span>think<span style="letter-spacing: -.65pt;"> </span>these<span style="letter-spacing: -.65pt;">
</span>messages can<span style="letter-spacing: -.3pt;"> </span>reach<span style="letter-spacing: -.3pt;"> </span>more<span style="letter-spacing: -.25pt;"> </span>than<span style="letter-spacing: -.25pt;"> </span>just<span style="letter-spacing: -.25pt;"> </span>women<span style="letter-spacing: -.3pt;"> </span>and<span style="letter-spacing: -.25pt;"> </span>I<span style="letter-spacing: -.3pt;"> </span>am<span style="letter-spacing: -.3pt;"> </span>sure<span style="letter-spacing: -.25pt;"> </span>it<span style="letter-spacing: -.3pt;"> </span>can<span style="letter-spacing: -.25pt;"> </span>inspire<span style="letter-spacing: -.3pt;">
</span>many<span style="letter-spacing: -.25pt;"> </span>individuals.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Toby Fesler Heathcottehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09304240570140750270noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8915339152813964321.post-82226650084987711532020-05-07T09:48:00.000-07:002020-05-08T14:19:45.728-07:00My Hydroxychloroquine Caper<br />
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In mid-March 2020, as I listened to numerous news reports about
the impending epidemic of COVID-19, I worried that things could get worse, like
pandemic bad, because medical people didn’t appear to have any treatment or
vaccine to combat the virus. In other words, it was a super virus.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Lo and behold, Trump, despite having zip medical training, hyped
a drug that could cure the virus—<a href="https://www.blogger.com/u/1/null" name="_Hlk37918623">hydroxychloroquine</a>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was shocked and surprised and wondered what
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For the past four or five years, I’ve taken the drug hydroxychloroquine,
brand name Plaquenil, originally developed to cure another epidemic—malaria. It
is useful for treatment of rheumatoid arthritis, an affliction of mine for
about twenty years.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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I had begun to suffer from some side effects including eye
problems. Both the ophthalmologist and the rheumatologist decided to start me
on a different medication and wean me off the hydroxychloroquine. I clearly had
a bunch of it in my system. What impact would that have if I contracted COVID-19?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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Would I be immune? Do I have to stay home, or could I go out
shopping, visiting, and ramming around the neighborhood? Just asking. <o:p></o:p></div>
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If so, I could become Florence Nightingale and walk amongst
the ill and become a healer for the nation. With such glorious possibilities in
the offing, I struck out, metaphorically since I was confined to my house, to
discover some answers.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Might I be such a superhero? What’s a superhero if no one
believes in her? <o:p></o:p></div>
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To find the answer, first, I texted my younger son while he
was working from home instead of going to his law office. With such slim info
as I had presented, he opined that chances were slim that I would contract
malaria based on my drug usage, for whatever that was worth. I considered his
response utterly inadequate.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Next, I texted my elder son who was traveling out of the
country on vacation. The feds were threatening to recall all Americans abroad
asap. Undaunted, he replied that he feared like Brer Rabbit he could get
stranded in New Zealand and not have to leave. The authorities insisted so he
did make his flight home and brought back a suitcase full of toilet paper.
Despite my broad support for his international turmoil, he took no interest in
mine and failed to make any pertinent comment on the question of his mother’s conjectures
about her physical superiority through medication.<o:p></o:p></div>
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My sons did not believe in my superpower, so I turned to
medical professionals.<o:p></o:p></div>
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In chatting with my rheumatologist, I described my
excitement about my potential immunity. I asked her how much of an illicit
market there might become for my stash of hydroxychloroquine. <o:p></o:p></div>
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To my delight she pointedly and jokingly required that I let
her get in on the deal. She could prescribe and I could sell on the side and split
the profits with her. I should have been surprised at her duplicity until I
recalled one year at Halloween when she arrived for my appointment dressed as a
vampire, blood-letting tools in hand.<o:p></o:p></div>
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To learn whether there could be any chance of acting on this
idea, I called my pharmacist. I requested getting my prescription filled early
and shared my concern about whether he would have supplies on hand, considering
the newscasters reported shortages. People were buying up pills, believing
Trump’s hype. <o:p></o:p></div>
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The pharmacist assured me that he had plenty, blowing up my
potentially illegal trafficking scheme. He had one other customer who used it,
so he saved enough back for us. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Even though I didn’t ask, I wondered how people were obtaining
pills without prescriptions or who might be writing fraudulent ones. I googled
black market but got no results. That particular avenue for exploitation eluded
me.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I googled side effects for hydroxy chloroquine and found
many, including cardiac failure, blurred vision, diarrhea, and many other wretched
outcomes. I’ve been spared the worst of them, so maybe I am immune to this
current virus. I can’t let go of the idea. <o:p></o:p></div>
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One night I had a dream exactly to the point of my concerns:
A gnarly old guy from AAA was selling drugs out of the trunk of his car. He was
trying to take advantage of the COVID-19 scare to make a huge profit on
hydroxychloroquine.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I couldn’t tell whether AAA stood for American Automobile
Association or Arizona Authors Association. That’s the thing about dreams. It
may not be either. The salient point here was that I recognized the gnarly old
man. <o:p></o:p></div>
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It’s Trump, of course, with his rambling whine, selling a
new snake oil to cure COVID-19. I hear he has stock in the company producing hydroxychloroquine.
Otherwise how could he possibly know how to pronounce it with so many syllables?<o:p></o:p></div>
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On consulting the rumor website, Snopes, I found this: “U.S.
President Donald Trump will benefit financially if hydroxychloroquine becomes
an established treatment for COVID-19” is mostly False. “What's True U.S.
President Donald Trump earns some income from three family trusts that are
administered independently by J.P. Morgan, an investment bank and
wealth-management firm. These trusts are in part invested in mutual funds that
themselves are partially invested in companies that produce
hydroxychloroquine.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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So there you have a Trump fact we’ve come to accept. It’s
true and not true at the same time. Yes, he’s making money on the drug, but not
enough to make it matter. He has moved on to bleach and light.<o:p></o:p></div>
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as a possible cure for COVID-19. A few doctors are using it as a treatment
for infected people. If that turns out to be effective, would I be immune to
the disease? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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they’ve run amok and have killed enough folks to stop the experiments.
Conclusion—don’t listen to the president. Unfortunately not enough people have
learned this rule. I could have told them he’s not to be trusted a long time
ago. In fact, I did but my was voice lost in the wilderness of Facebook.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Feeling anxious, I wanted to stay alive, but ultimately for what?
Is my life worth saving? More to the point in this environment, is my life more
valuable than my sons, who are working from home because they have high-paying
jobs or my grandson, who is at high risk of contamination in a grocery store
with a low-paying job? A life’s worth seems flipped on its head. At least for
me at this time.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I dread writing my feelings down and at the same time want
to, at least to memorialize the episode of horrifying history I’m experiencing.
<o:p></o:p></div>
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With copious bouts of writer’s block, the same doubt has
assailed me since the day I took early retirement from teaching so I could
devote myself to writing. Ironically, I only respond to deadlines, self-imposed
or created by dent of my membership in a critique group. Thus, I have to have a
deadline to do what I supposedly wanted to do and managed to pen these pages in
time. Sketchy as this approach seems, it’s all I’ve got.<o:p></o:p></div>
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For the past few mornings, I’ve awakened from dreams feeling
pulled away from a task. I’ve volunteered in the dream world to work on a team
to create a cure in the astral world for the virus in the real world. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Maybe this bears out my previous dream of the gnarly old man
from AAA. Perhaps he’s from the Astral Analog Assembly. If that isn’t an
organization, maybe I should found it myself.<o:p></o:p></div>
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With such dreams to fortify me, I imagine myself walking
through the hospital immune to all disease. I swoop in and touch the sick
people and they are magically cured. <o:p></o:p></div>
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How cool would it be to be a superwoman destined to end this
sorry business we are living through?<o:p></o:p></div>
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Wouldn’t you love it too? We’re all wannabe superheroes at
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Bright",serif;">In this
anthology, wise women tell poignant stories of their efforts to overcome
discrimination, prejudice, repression, sexism, and marginalization in their
lives. These authors give hope, discernment, and support to young women
embarking on their own journeys today.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Bright",serif;">Contributing
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Monique Gerbaud, Rita Heathcotte, Toby Fesler Heathcotte, Marilyn June Janson,
Jan Nichols, Constance Osterlitz, Tamara Poff, Jane Ruby, Vijaya Schartz,
Writer Anonymous<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br />Toby Fesler Heathcottehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09304240570140750270noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8915339152813964321.post-92029198337212572932020-02-15T15:51:00.001-08:002020-02-15T15:51:18.195-08:00DREAM CONFERENCE IN SCOTTSDALEI'm a member of The International Association for the Study of Dreams. They are holding their annual conference at the Doubletree Inn June 13-17, 2020. The public is welcome. I heartily recommend the conference because of all you'll learn and experience and the terrific folk who love talking about their dreams. It's fantastic good fun.<br />
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<br />Toby Fesler Heathcottehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09304240570140750270noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8915339152813964321.post-67984221009472218512020-02-09T15:35:00.000-08:002020-02-09T15:35:46.780-08:00UPCOMING ANTHOLOGY - WOMEN WRONGED<div class="WordSection1">
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<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Contributing Essayists: Eyvonne Carter-Riley, Kathleen Cook, Marcia Farrell, Valerie Foster, Monique Gerbaud, Rita Heathcotte, Toby Fesler Heathcotte, Marilyn June Janson, Jan Nichols, Constance Osterlitz, Tamara Poff, Jane Ruby, Vijaya Schartz, Writer Anonymous<o:p></o:p></span></div>
Toby Fesler Heathcottehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09304240570140750270noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8915339152813964321.post-59376878250816244832018-05-31T07:31:00.002-07:002018-05-31T07:31:52.653-07:00Time Travel to 1968<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif;">Beware
if you decide to time travel to your own past. It's filled with emotional
triggers. CNN's recent retrospective on 1968 was difficult to watch. Few events
in my life evoke the same emotion on recollection as they did in the moment. The
assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy evoke that for
me.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook","serif";">In
1968, my husband and I were taking graduate class work at Indiana University.
Our sons attended preschool. We lived in married housing where we had a clunky
17- inch black and white TV. On it, I watched Bobby give citizens of
Indianapolis the terrible news of King's death. They didn't riot as many
outraged citizens did in other major cities. Somehow he forged hope in them to
temper their grief, the sign of a great leader.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook","serif";">Two
weeks later, Bobby gave a speech in the I U auditorium. I waited outside with
four thousand fellow students. When they opened the doors, I almost got crushed
against the glass. Fortunately a classmate whisked me inside, and we all found
seats near the front. Bobby gave details of a foreign policy designed to end
the war in Viet Nam and our role as the world's policeman, the main reason I
intended to vote for him. I felt afraid for my country, that the war could go
on long enough to snuff out my sons. He gave us hope for peace. Bobby won the
Indiana primary and went on to California to follow King in death.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook","serif";">These
two men offered a message of hope for justice and peace. Fifty years later I still
grieve because no one has taken up their mantle of impassioned service. Emotional
triggers can be bad as in causing me to cry or good as in leading me to write
something to share with my friends. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Toby Fesler Heathcottehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09304240570140750270noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8915339152813964321.post-13144524904948408132017-11-15T10:06:00.001-08:002017-11-15T10:06:13.758-08:00My First Review of Backlight<div class="MsoBodyText" style="text-align: justify;">
“Backlight: A Fesler Family
Chronicle” by Toby Fesler Heathcotte is a beautifully written account of the
authors endeavor to trace her family’s genealogy, in an effort to better
understand how one’s heritage helped determine who they are today.</div>
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Heathcotte did extensive background research, ancestral
searches and interviews with living family members to gain the information on her
family history. I thought this read would be one that would only benefit the
Fesler family; however, I was quite intrigued by how ingenious the families
were in the quest to survive, and how life was from 1684 to 1969. The author
provided vivid descriptions of events, and I felt like I transported through
history with the incredible narrative.</div>
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I thoroughly enjoyed "Backlight: A Fesler Family
Chronicle" by Toby Fesler Heathcotte. It was informative, meaningful, and
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In the theatre, a backlight illuminates the shapes of the actors and
the set but masks the details to create illusory truth. <i>Backlight</i> tells the shadow tale of a family’s trek across
continents and generations. One family journeyed from Switzerland in the 1600s
through Germany to Pennsylvania Colony in the 1700s, into Indiana in the 1800s,
and then to Arizona in the 1900s, always searching for a better life. </div>
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The Fesler saga mirrors the experiences of millions of Americans, no
matter their heritage or land of origin. This work is part history, part
fiction but a whole attempt to understand the people and forces that help shape
us. The more we understand, the better we can consciously choose directions for
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A young man who remembers dying in the Vietnam War reincarnates compelled to find his previous family and fulfill the destiny denied him by death. His current family feels abandoned. Diego risks exposing his illegal status as a Mexican migrant and drives to Phoenix in 2014. He recognizes his home and some people but fails to convince them. An ally, Brianna, and other students accompany him to a protest for DACA "dreamers." The authorities deport Diego. He faces a dangerous return to Phoenix and the prejudice of family members who reject him.<br />
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Write to me on my website if you're interested.<br />
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Toby Fesler Heathcottehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09304240570140750270noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8915339152813964321.post-5916942925735561922016-10-31T12:35:00.000-07:002016-10-31T12:35:04.105-07:00Luke's Covenant won a Halloween Book Award previously. For a spooky read, try:<br />
https://www.amazon.com/Lukes-Covenant-Alma-Chronicles-Book-ebook/dp/B002KE4XZ2/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8Toby Fesler Heathcottehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09304240570140750270noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8915339152813964321.post-33910382839301489122016-06-29T14:15:00.002-07:002016-06-29T14:15:08.973-07:00An Exciting Read for Independence Day <div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13.5pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
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'Hamilton,' Revolutionary era inspires little art" said Hillel Italie</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"> of The Associated Press today</span><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">."Notable works about the American
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Destiny tells the fictional story of a young Scot who flees to the Maryland
Colony in the run up to the American Revolution. His path crosses those of other
patriots, Tom Jefferson and George Washington. As a doctor Lainn defies the law
and runs a secret clinic where he </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">inoculates recruits, giving them a chance to survive illness
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reincarnate lifetime after lifetime from the ancient Celtic world through
21st century America.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
Toby Fesler Heathcottehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09304240570140750270noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8915339152813964321.post-28847300060686687442014-04-26T17:32:00.001-07:002014-04-26T17:32:37.148-07:00The Ecstasy of Surrender: 12 Surprising Ways Letting Go can Empower Your Life by Judith Orloff, MD<div class="MsoNormal">
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premise. Orloff develops it into an insightful approach. She assumes her readers
have high intelligence and talks directly to them with respect and forthrightness.
This quality makes her an excellent teacher. Her chapters speak to paths we all follow from
time to time in our lives. I took her suggestion to jump around to read the
chapters that have greatest relevance.</div>
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The chapter on igniting your super senses and particularly
the art of reading people encourages the reader to greater sensitivity in
relating to other people. She assumes we all have super senses and can develop
them if we choose to. I found the surrender test and the chapters on illness
and aging equally valuable. </div>
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I love to read books with a highlighter. Returning to read
the highlights later gives me added dimension. Orloff's book is such a
treasure: "Surrender to your intuition: Make space for grace." "...illness
is a call for your soul to grow. "...dreams are committed to supporting
your well being." "Make your mind a shelter, a safe place to
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If we learn her techniques we can grow spiritually, have
happier more fulfilling lives, and give more meaningful service to mankind. If
that possibility intrigues you, I highly recommend The Ecstasy of Surrender as
a guide. You'll be glad you read it.</div>
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Toby Fesler Heathcottehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09304240570140750270noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8915339152813964321.post-20156984105401999362014-01-24T14:22:00.000-08:002014-01-24T14:22:09.388-08:00Resources for Writers<div class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
Editing</div>
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<span style="color: #3366ff;">chicagomanualofstyle.org/home.html</span>
nonfiction<span style="color: #3366ff;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on"><i>Oxford</i></st1:city></st1:place><i> American Dictionary and Thesaurus<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<span style="color: #3366ff;">mla.org</span>
- Modern Language Association style sheet</div>
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<i>The
Elements of Style</i> by William Strunk</div>
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<i>Rules
for Writer </i>by Diana Hacker</div>
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<span style="color: #3366ff;">camlang.com</span>
– Cambridge Language of Style</div>
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<i>Self-Editing For Fiction Writers: How to
edit yourself into print</i> by Renni Browne and Dave King.</div>
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<i>Stein on Writing </i>by Sol Stein</div>
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<i>The First Five Pages: A writer’s guide to
staying out of the rejection pile </i>by Noah Lukeman.</div>
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<i>Formatting & Submitting Your Manuscript,
Edition </i>2 by Cynthia Laufenberg and<i> </i>the
editors of <i>Writer’s Digest Books<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i>The Writer’s Digest Writing Clinic </i>by
Joe Feiertag and Mary Cupito</div>
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<a href="http://www.underdown.org/mf-self-editing.htm">http://www.underdown.org/mf-self-editing.htm</a></div>
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<a href="http://www.notrain-nogain.org/Train/Res/Write/rev.asp">http://www.notrain-nogain.org/Train/Res/Write/rev.asp</a></div>
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<a href="http://www.writing-life.com/style/editing.html">http://www.writing-life.com/style/editing.html</a></div>
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<span lang="EN">Publishing<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #3366ff; mso-ansi-language: EN;">AuthorSmart.com</span><span lang="EN"> – nonfiction publishing<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #3366ff; mso-ansi-language: EN;">writeandpublishyourbook.com<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #3366ff; mso-ansi-language: EN;">azbookpub.com </span><span lang="EN">– Arizona Book Publishers Association<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #3366ff; mso-ansi-language: EN;">booksandtales.com/pod/index.php</span><span lang="EN"> – a guide for Print on Demand<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #3366ff; mso-ansi-language: EN;">book-publishers-compared.com</span><span lang="EN">/ - a good book<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #3366ff; mso-ansi-language: EN;">parapublishing.com/sites/para</span><span lang="EN">/ - information on self-publishing<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #3366ff; mso-ansi-language: EN;">communicationcreativity.com/index.html</span><span lang="EN"> – good books<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN">Libraries<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #3366ff; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Gutenberg.org </span><span lang="EN">– free books<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #3366ff; mso-ansi-language: EN;">ipl.org</span><span lang="EN"> Internet public library<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3366ff;">publaw.com</span>
- articles on copyright and other writing-related law</div>
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<span lang="EN"><a href="http://www.copyright.gov/">copyright.gov/</a>Go
to Literary Works and follow the directions.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN"><a href="http://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=1265997">everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=1265997</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN"><a href="http://www.irs.gov/businesses/small/index.html">irs.gov/businesses/small/index.html</a></span></div>
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<span lang="EN">Agents <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN"><a href="http://www.agentquery.com/">agentquery.com</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN"><a href="http://www.anotherealm.com/prededitors/pealw.htm">anotherealm.com/prededitors/pealw.htm</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN"><a href="http://fictionaddiction.net/agents.html">fictionaddiction.net/agents.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN"><a href="http://www.writers-free-reference.com/agents/">writers-free-reference.com/agents/</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN"><a href="http://www.kitwhitfield.com/publisherdating.html">kitwhitfield.com/publisherdating.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Technique</div>
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<i><span lang="EN">How to Write Attention-Grabbing Query
& Cover Letters</span></i><span lang="EN"> by
John Wood<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="EN">How to Write a Book Proposal</span></i><span lang="EN"> by Michael Larsen<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="EN">The Marshall Plan for Getting Your Novel
Published </span></i><span lang="EN">by Evan
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<span lang="EN"><a href="http://www.writersdigest.com/">writersdigest.com/</a>
- books and articles on writing – good technique books<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3366ff;"><a href="http://www.fwbookstore.com/category/writing"><span style="color: #3366ff;">fwbookstore</span>.com/category/writing</a></span>
- Writer’s Digest books on writing</div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #3366ff; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Writingcareer.com<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #3366ff; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Moviebytes.com<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #3366ff; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Internetwritingworkshop.org<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Marketing</div>
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<span style="color: #3366ff;">literarymarketplace.com</span>/ - one week subscriptions
online – also in libraries<span lang="EN"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #3366ff; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Radiolocator.com</span><span style="color: #3366ff;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #3366ff; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Newspapers24.com<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #3366ff; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Newslink.org<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="color: #3366ff; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Absolutewrite.com<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="color: #3366ff; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Inktip.com<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #3366ff; mso-ansi-language: EN;">authorsandspeakersnetwork.com<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="color: #3366ff;">Writersreaders.com</span> – local website
host for independent authors<span lang="EN"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN"><a href="http://www.newvoicesbookstore.com/">newvoicesbookstore.com/</a> accepts
self-published books on consignment.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #3366ff; mso-ansi-language: EN;">writersmarket.com</span><span lang="EN"> – places to sell your writing<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3366ff;">writerbeware.org – sfwa.org</span> (Science Fiction and
Fantasy Writers of America)</div>
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Toby Fesler Heathcottehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09304240570140750270noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8915339152813964321.post-17235918884679461262014-01-18T09:11:00.000-08:002014-01-18T09:11:34.455-08:00TOBY FESLER HEATHCOTTE LIVE ON RADIO, ABOUT BOOKS AND PSI<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; margin-bottom: 12pt;">
<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Tune in to "Under
the Surface" hosted by Lori Hines, Jan. 24, 2014, at 7 pm Arizona time (9
pm EST) on </span><a href="http://www.whvrdigital.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">www.whvrdigital.com</span></a><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Toby Fesler Heathcotte </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">answers
questions about her psi experiences and her metaphysical books. She authored
Out of the Psychic Closet: The Quest to Trust my True Nature and the Alma
Chronicles, a multi-generational fiction series based on reincarnation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Toby
also talks about her years as president of Arizona Authors Association and
offers advice to writers in all genres. Tune in from 7:00 to 9:00 pm, call in
to the studio, or connect through the chat room. You might win a book giveaway.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
Toby Fesler Heathcottehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09304240570140750270noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8915339152813964321.post-92139427829768488102013-10-09T06:57:00.000-07:002013-10-09T06:57:14.623-07:00<div class="MsoNormal">
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delighted to have the chance to interview him about his new book.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Toby: Do
modern technological aids such as GPS and smart phones help or hinder the development
of ESP abilities? <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Dr.
Targ: In my experience, people seem to do better at remote viewing in an
electrically shielded room. EMF doesn’t help. It appears to hurt.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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your own paranormal experiences influenced the direction of your research?<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Dr.
Targ: Yes. It was my early psychic perceptions that gave me the confidence to
move from physics to ESP research. I once was riding with my boss, when I had a
clear vision of Hebrew characters written in white on black. It turned out to
be a Photostat manuscript on the desk of my boss’s best friend the rabbi. Also
as a teen-ager I was a stage magician doing mental magic. I occasionally had
clear and correct visual images pertaining to the person whose mind I was
pretending to read.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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humans as a species eventually embrace their ESP abilities? Why or why not? <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Dr.
Targ: We are still trying to recover from the stigma on all mystics from the
so-called Enlightenment, when the Church and science was trying to save us from
evil mysticism. But today there are more than two-million web pages on Google
pertaining to “remote viewing” and how to learn and use it. So I think we are
making progress. We had a $23 million program at SRI to do research for the
government.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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believing in paranormal phenomena increase a person's performance of ESP tasks?<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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Targ: Yes indeed. The sheep do much better than the goats. This is a highly
repeatable finding. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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ESP research prove or disprove reincarnation?
<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Dr.
Targ: ESP is not related to reincarnation. The person is either re-born or he
isn’t. ESP is essential for evidence for
postmortem persistence of the personality. So-called survival. This data
usually comes to a medium by ESP. And the evidence for survival is excellent.
My book has several good examples.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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feel the scientific community gives your work the attention and respect it
deserves? <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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Targ: When we were at SRI with lots of money, we got very respectful attention
from the scientific community. Our work was published in Nature, The Proceedings
of the Electrical and Electronic Engineers, and the American Institute of
Physics. After the program was cancelled in 1995, not so much. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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do spirituality or religious faith exert on the development of ESP abilities?<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Dr.
Targ: It is not necessary to be a religious believer to be psychic. However
after some years of remote viewing, it becomes clear that we are able to
experience events that are thousands of miles away or in the future. The
Buddhists call this timeless awareness. And they say that is who you are. I
agree.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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changes would you like to see in medical practice to accommodate distant
healing?<a href="" name="_GoBack"></a><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Dr.
Targ: I think the evidence for distant healing is excellent. My daughter
Elisabeth Targ did a successful study with 60 of her San Francisco AIDS
patients. The paper was published in The Western Medical Journal in 1999.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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do you predict psychic research will head in the future?<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Dr.
Targ: As soon as we have a description of the physics of ESP, it will swiftly
be accepted. Or if the people who are trying to make money in the market of
gambling are successful, there will be a big positive change. In 1982 we made
$120,000 forecasting silver commodities. We were successful 9 out of 9. And
NOVA made a one-hour show to celebrate. It was called The Case of ESP. Still
available on Google.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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impact do you hope your work will have on human consciousness?<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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Targ: My hope is that people will realize that they are not just meat and
potatoes. They might be more compassionate toward one-another and greatly
diminish their own suffering.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Thank you, Dr. Targ for enlightening us all.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">About The Reality of ESP: A
Physicist’s Proof of Psychic Abilities<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Nobel laureate physicist Brian Josephson
says, “This book should make those who deny the existence of [psychic]
phenomena think again.” In <em>The Reality of <st1:stockticker w:st="on">ESP</st1:stockticker></em>,
Targ presents evidence from the $20 million research program he co-founded at
Stanford Research Institute (<st1:stockticker w:st="on">SRI</st1:stockticker>)
in the 1970s. The amazing feats of psychic ability he details include: <span style="color: #111111;">While remote viewing for the <st1:stockticker w:st="on">CIA</st1:stockticker>,
<st1:stockticker w:st="on">SRI</st1:stockticker> psychics found a downed
Russian bomber in Africa, reported on the health of American hostages in Iran,
and described Soviet weapons factories in Siberia. When San Francisco heiress
Patricia Hearst was abducted from her home in Berkeley, a psychic with the <st1:stockticker w:st="on">SRI</st1:stockticker> team identified the kidnapper and then
accurately described and located the kidnap car. After leaving <st1:stockticker w:st="on">SRI</st1:stockticker>, Targ's group made $120,000 by psychically
forecasting <em>for nine weeks in a row</em> the direction and amount of changes
in the silver commodity futures market – without error!</span><span style="color: #1e81c4;"> </span>Targ also describes a plan for developing your
own psychic abilities.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Physicist Russell Targ was
the co-founder of a 20 year $25 million research program investigating psychic
abilities for the CIA, Army Intelligence and many other agencies at Stanford
Research Institute (SRI). This previously SECRET research and applications
program is now declassified. Targ has written a comprehensive book describing
the remarkable accomplishments of this program. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Physics and ESP from his recent book</span></span> - <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhRubnF4dN8">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhRubnF4dN8</a></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">For More
Information About Russell Targ and The Reality of ESP - </span><a href="http://bookpromotionservices.com/2013/09/03/add-info-reality-esp-russell-targ/"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">http://bookpromotionservices.com/2013/09/03/add-info-reality-esp-russell-targ/</span></a><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Russell
Targ’s Website – </span><a href="http://www.espresearch.com/"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">http://www.espresearch.com/</span></a><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Amazon Link
for The Reality of ESP – <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Print - </span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Reality-ESP-Physicists-Psychic-Abilities/dp/0835608840"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">http://www.amazon.com/Reality-ESP-Physicists-Psychic-Abilities/dp/0835608840</span></a><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Kindle - </span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Reality-of-ESP-ebook/dp/B00AQ3WRTS"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">http://www.amazon.com/The-Reality-of-ESP-ebook/dp/B00AQ3WRTS</span></a><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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co-founder of a 20 year $25 million research program investigating psychic
abilities for the CIA, Army Intelligence and many other agencies at Stanford
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Who is the man with the cat?<br />
Look for an interview and details of a wonderful new book by this author.<br />
I promise you will love the book<br />
Watch for the post on October 9.
Toby Fesler Heathcottehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09304240570140750270noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8915339152813964321.post-23511821499391061572012-09-30T12:04:00.000-07:002012-09-30T12:04:26.674-07:00Nightmares, Troubling DreamsDespite the terror a nightmare causes, it is a positive event in your life. The mind cleanses itself of bad dreams and disgusting thoughts through nightmares.
It's a sign that your dreaming self considers you strong enough to learn something about yourself or fix some problem. However, you may have to work hard to turn the negative into a positive. It could be emotionally taxing but will be worth the effort in relief. .<br />
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As various as our own personalities, nightmares often include being chased, brutalized, isolated, forced to do horrible things, and all manner of mayhem humans can think up..<br />
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Our nightmares are responses to both inner and outer havoc. I don't have nightmares often, but when I do they are often provoked by the news like this one in 2007:
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I was in a prison hospital with very real, bright colors. A young man, an Arab, lay on the operating table. He was scared. I put my arms around him. I could feel his heart beat and his trembling. Then the staff took over. They began to disembowel him while he was still alive. They were really enjoying the process. I could see one blue-gowned man pull out guts and lay them on the table. The horror of it awoke me. .<br />
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The day before the dream, I had heard about some cases before the Supreme Court of death row victims remaining awake and feeling great pain before death finally came..<br />
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Also on TV a Muslim called himself an alien in America. I'm reminded of World War II when Japanese and Germans were interred here in the U S because the people couldn’t tell the good guys from the bad. The same thing is happening now in some places.
The darkness in my soul mirrors the times. I dream about these things because I’m a part of the mind of the world. It’s not all wonderful to be a part of the whole. To be aware of cruelty, to experience it from the point of view of the victim and of the perpetrator—that’s hard to bear..<br />
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When I awoke from the nightmare, I felt breathless. I was sweating and my heart thumped in my chest. I didn’t want to write it down but couldn’t get it out of my mind. As I wrote, my physical symptoms abated..<br />
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It's possible such dreams are flushing out the system, making sure all the parts work okay. The dreaming self creates the upsetting scenarios to get us emotionally revved up. This works much like our immune system where we catch a cold then manufacturer the anti-bodies to cure it..<br />
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When we move from waking to sleeping, we prepare to dream by beginning rapid eye movements (REM). We continue to breathe and our involuntary functions continue, but sleep paralysis keeps our arms and legs still so we don't act out the scenarios we are dreaming. Sometimes, when a person becomes aware that his body is paralyzed during this transition, he becomes fearful and a nightmare results. .<br />
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Alien abduction nightmares often include stories of sleep paralysis, which is a normal passage from waking to sleeping when the body's processes change. .<br />
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If the person realizes what is happening with the onset of a nightmare or troubling dream, he might be able to convert the experience into a lucid dream. The trick is to realize one is dreaming then change the plot to something more palatable or even enjoyable. .<br />
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A recurring dream with no variations in the scenario could indicate post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Don't think for a minute that it just happens to veterans of wars. They do suffer from PTSD frequently, but so do people who are victims of car accidents, floods, fires, hurricanes, and other manmade or natural disasters.
Those who have been abused as children or adults are prone to PTSD as are people displaced by political unrest and victims of crimes. Just watching Nine Eleven happen on TV and the events of the following days caused one third of Americans to suffer from sleep deprivation, according to a Pew Research Center Study. .<br />
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Previous unresolved issues in our lives can make problems worse for those who suffer from nightmares or lack of sleep. .<br />
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Nightmares are often repressed memories that surface so we can deal with their effects in our lives. The more bizarre the dream, the greater its importance..<br />
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Trust each dream as an effort to achieve greater clarity and inner peace for the dreamer. Whatever fragment of a dream is available, even if it's just seeing an image of a tiger, work with that. The next time you have the nightmare, turn and face the tiger. Ask it, "What it is doing in your dream?" It might dissolve into a kitten and become a dream ally..<br />
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Recurring dreams where the same scenario repeats or something similar happens tell the dreamer that there is work to be done. The good news is that our dreaming selves know we are capable of dealing with the underlying conditions that cause the dream. .<br />
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Nightmares can represent repressed events from our life, often unresolved problems from childhood, for example feeling unloved by a parent or bullied by classmates. Repressed memories of mistreatment by others or abuse by adults, whether physical, emotional, verbal, or sexual, often result in nightmares. .<br />
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If such memories emerge for you, there's no reason to feel ashamed or frightened. Find someone to support you in analyzing your dreams and reclaiming the memories. It could be family, friend, or a professional counselor. The important thing to accept is that you are ready at some level to deal with the emotional fallout or your dreams would not occur..<br />
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An author friend of mine, Beth Blake, tells of her daughter's nightmare that became a positive learning experience for both of them, once explained by a therapist.
When my daughter was a teenager, we had a sweet black lab named Pepper. Pepper was a big dog who loved to cuddle and, despite her size, was the gentlest dog on earth.
One night, my daughter had a bad dream. She dreamt she went into her room, and it was filled with snakes crawling all over the floor. Panicked, she ran to the living room to find me and screamed for help. I handed her a gun. She ran back to her room and shot the snakes, one by one. Instead of bullets, water shot out of the gun. As soon as the water hit each snake, the snake turned into Pepper, ending up with a room full of Peppers..<br />
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A therapist I know, Lillie Weiss, author of Dream Analysis in Psychotherapy, and Practical Dreaming: Awakening the Power of Dreams in Your Life, told me that the snakes represented scary problems in her life. As usual, she ran to me, her mother, for help. Because she was a teenager by now and not a child anymore, I did not go with her but instead gave her the tools (the gun) to handle the problems herself. When she attacked the problems (the snakes), the problems went away and were replaced by our loving dog, Pepper. .<br />
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The dream frightened my daughter until I explained to her the therapist's analysis.
All dreams, including nightmares, bring new information. A dream scenario might seem like something you've dreamed many times, but you are either not following the path toward wholeness that you need to follow or there is something new to be gleaned from the dream..<br />
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Fear of cancer surgery provoked a nightmare that became a compelling inspiration in the life of another author friend, Cherie Lee..<br />
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Two nights before my scheduled mastectomy surgery for breast cancer, I had the worst nightmare I’ve ever had. Pregnant human-animals used their extending jaws to eat part of my body, my breast. Flesh tore from my body, but I did not feel pain. Blood and urine pooled on the floor under stacked cages of creatures. Everything stank..<br />
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My heart raced, my body trembled and I wiped sweat from my head as I sat on the edge of my bed. Frightened, I told myself to write everything I remembered down. It had to mean something..<br />
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As I wrote my notes, my heartbeats slowed. I wrote faster feeling I’d lose some details if I didn’t rush. By the time I finished scrawling my notes, I realized my fear had fled. Did the act of writing that nightmare down make my fear disappear? I had no clues but I did feel everything would be all right.
To help reassure myself, I whispered, “This is a great story outline. You’re going to survive and write it, too.”.<br />
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My self-talk convinced me to go get a drink of water and go back to bed. I quickly said a prayer and had a warm feeling inside me. Soon, I slept peacefully and woke refreshed the next morning..<br />
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After my surgery with my recovery well on its way, I focused on writing every day. I made notes and organized emails to remind me about my feelings dealing with cancer. Those notes lead to a published booklet, which covered my feelings as a survivor, as I sought ways to encourage women to get their mammograms as well as let them know having breast cancer doesn’t mean an automatic death sentence..<br />
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An even more wonderful result, the nightmare inspired my first fiction publication in a horror anthology. It gave me courage to pursue my dreams of writing fiction..<br />
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Our nightmares and troubling dreams work toward greater wholeness, greater self-understanding, and spiritual growth. .<br />
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Here's a Tip
• If you have a nightmare, try to understand. Ask yourself why you are afraid. What about the dream makes you not want to finish it? Why did you awaken instead of turning the dream to something positive?
• Invoke your dreaming self. Ask it to become your friend. Ask it to send a dream figure who will help you deal with the nightmares, like an angel or a puppy.
• Re-enter your dream and continue it while you are awake.
• Remember the dream has come to serve your best interest. Try to figure out its meaning in both your dreaming life and your waking life.
• Stay alert for moments when you realize you are dreaming and try to take control of the dream and turn it to your satisfaction.
• There have been reports that some nightmares lead to diagnoses of illness, such as cancer, in time for treatment to be effective. Scan your dreams for such information for your health's sake.
Toby Fesler Heathcottehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09304240570140750270noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8915339152813964321.post-57029417731026526102012-07-31T15:32:00.001-07:002012-09-30T12:07:14.602-07:00Mutual DreamingMutual dreams are called different names—collective dreams, group dreams, shared dreams. Sometimes discriminations are made among them. For example, in a mutual dream two or more dreamers agree to meet in a particular place they all know in waking life, like the White House. A shared dream might happen spontaneously where two or more dreamers have a dream with the same plot and characters. .<br />
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Whether we remember these dreams or not we may experience them, particularly with those related biologically. If a family has a tradition of sharing dreams at the breakfast table, both types of dreams may occur. It's healthy and normal to share dreams, although some people in Western culture shy away from doing so except in clinical settings. .<br />
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Dreams involving unborn children either by the pregnant woman or other family members, such as the father or a grandparent, often break through the memory barrier. Such dreams can result in bonding with the unborn child or drawing attention to problems with the pregnancy. .<br />
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Most Native American cultures and some African cultures have traditions of dream sharing and respect for the process. They use dreams to help guide community decision making, such as where to hunt or move their village. .<br />
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Dream sharing can benefit everyone because it increases intimacy and understanding of ourselves and others. There is an awe factor to simply knowing we can decide to dream about a place and meet others there.
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Researcher Jean Campbell conducted experiments sponsored by the Edgar Cayce Foundation and the Poseidia Institute in the 1980s. Her book Group Dreaming narrates her findings. At first she and her co-experimenters simply wanted to find out if they could meet in dreams. They discovered quickly that they could and went on to develop their understanding and protocols for experiments. They learned to recognize each other and retrieve messages sent by Campbell..<br />
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Two prominent researchers and dream counselors, Robert Moss and Jeremy Taylor, sponsor workshops where people can explore their potential for mutual dreaming.
An important part of any research or just having fun with this activity is the idea of intention. Once you set your mind that you wish to experience mutual dreaming, you create an atmosphere for achieving a positive result. .<br />
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As long as you don't believe you can do it, you can't. At least not consciously. Your dreaming self who is far slyer than your waking self may have adventures despite your waking disbelief..<br />
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In 2007 I was lucky to find some online groups experimenting with mutual dreaming. At first I joined a public group that included about one hundred people. The website crashed, but some of us managed to reconnect and stay in touch in a Yahoo group. The International Association for the Study of Dreams (IASD) sponsors several websites devoted to mutual dreaming, so opportunities are available for those who wish to experiment..<br />
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During four years, the group headed by Bill Schuh has accomplished twenty-four experiments. Here is our procedure:
We set a date. One group member decides the key we're all to guess through a dream or waking intuition. Then we post our dream reports. The key holder posts a description and sometimes a photograph of the key. There are hits and misses and near misses. It's fun..<br />
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In one experiment I dreamed I was in a boat on water hauling up a winch with the wind blowing. The key holder listed the key as a replica of a punt owned by her grandfather, who lived in England. I thought I had missed entirely. Being an American I did not know that a punt and a boat are the same thing, but of course I figured it out when I saw the photograph of a boat. .<br />
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Others dreamed of being on their way towards water and of wind blowing, so they got hits too..<br />
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In another experiment the key holder chose a silver garden windmill. Some dreamers reported dreams of silver knives, of a gray misty cloud, a mobile hanging from a ceiling, and bicycle spokes. All of these objects reflect what a dreamer might interpret when looking at a silver garden windmill. .<br />
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However, when the photo of the key was posted there were two bicycle wheels lying against a shed in the background. The person who said bicycle wheels might have been looking down on the place from afar as if remote viewing. .<br />
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My dream didn't hit on this experiment, but my near miss proved interesting, the kind of thing that happens often in our group..<br />
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I dreamed the key holder had painted a wall light blue with a rainbow on it. The key holder replied that indeed she did have a light blue wall on her back porch near the garden where the windmill stood. She said she had always wanted to paint a rainbow on the wall but had not done so. .<br />
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Did I tap into the key holder's physical location, that is, remotely view her backyard? Did I use telepathy to tap into her mind with its unexpressed desire to paint the rainbow on the wall? Is there another explanation?.<br />
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It's risky to codify our discernment in these ephemeral matters, but I keep going back to clairvoyance, also known as remote viewing, or maybe astral travel. I always do better at guessing the key if I know where the person lives, that is, I knew the punt key holder lived in England, and I knew the windmill key holder lived in upstate New York. On experiments where I've had complete misses, I've not known where the person lived..<br />
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I think I travel to the key holder's home in mind or in my astral body then actually look down at the key. I believe the person who saw bicycle wheels got his information the same way —by looking down at the garden and seeing the bicycle spokes, then incorrectly interpreting that as the key. .<br />
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Not all people participating might get their information the way I do..<br />
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Do I guess it? Do I go look at it? I don't know the answers, but I keep searching for them. .<br />
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Several of the group members believe remote viewing accounts for their hits. Others suggest clairvoyance, telepathy, and sensing the energy of the person..<br />
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One other member of the group lives in Arizona. He is the only one I've met in person. Most of our members live across the United States and a few in England, one in Portugal. So it's not that I'm touching in on them physically in the same sense I dream about a family member or friend whom I know personally already and whose environment I recognize..<br />
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The online group decided to do an informal experiment to find out whether intentional dreaming or remote viewing played a more prominent role. We set a date with the goal of visiting my living room and describing it in as much detail as possible. .<br />
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Eight people participated, four giving dream intention as their method, the others remote viewing. With a small sample it only has validity as an anecdote. Still the results are provocative. .<br />
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The four members who professed to remote view got twice as many hits as the others.
Here's one of the best descriptions of my living room by a member named Parodia:
I saw arches and possibly an alcove made of arches. I saw a brass or gold-colored drawer handle and a wooden secretary, the type that has a fold down desk top. I tried to get a smell and although I didn't smell anything, the color and name lavender popped into my head..<br />
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I finished the remote viewing session and went to bed with the intention of visiting the home and remembering my dream. I was aware of dreaming but had little recall. I remember being in a living room and at one corner was some type of sparkles or glittery light. I remember a sofa which was an olive green or tan color and had a multicolored throw on the back. A voice told me to "Go through the mirror."
That's all I got. .<br />
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Parodia's description matched my living room in several ways. The furniture and kitchen cabinets are Queen Anne and Chippendale style. The cupboards have arches and there is an arch in the kitchen hall. My writing desk is wood with brass pulls. It is sometimes called a secretary. My roll-top desk does have a top that folds down. I have lavender curtains and patio blinds. My couch is tan/beige. There is a multi-colored throw on the white couch, and there is a tall mirror on one wall.
It's hard to imagine Parodia did not actually look at my room with such a detailed description. .<br />
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Here's a Tip
• With an interested partner, decide on a night to try to meet somewhere. Pick a location you both know and like, perhaps a specific restaurant or a fountain in a park. Agree to record your dreams and compare notes.
• Afterward, if you both have recalled dreams, check for similarities. Did your dream actually take place in the location? What happened as to plot? Who were the characters in the dream, and what were they wearing?
• Note any similarities. If there are none, you've nothing to lose by trying again.Toby Fesler Heathcottehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09304240570140750270noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8915339152813964321.post-67262079520564269132012-05-31T13:12:00.002-07:002012-09-30T12:07:57.833-07:00Reincarnation DreamsReincarnation dreams are easy to distinguish from other dreams because of setting details. You and others in the dream will likely wear unfamiliar clothing and the dreamscape will appear old or futuristic or foreign in some other way. You'll have a sense of yourself as someone else rather than as the dreaming self you're accustomed to identifying in your nightly excursions.
Often unsettling, the dream story may include the manner of your death as the previous personality. You will likely recognize the otherness of the dream as suggestive of a past life. If you're lucky, your dream might include verifiable personal details such as names, places, or times.
A friend of mine from my online dream group, Lorelei from Ohio, relates a reincarnation dream with partial verification. She says:
I once dreamt of walking to a convenience store where my mother was my child. She rode her bicycle beside me. As I went into the store, I felt very self conscious because I had one leg slightly longer than the other and thought people could tell.
I told my mother of this dream and she informed me her mother did have one leg slightly longer. She said it was not noticeable but her mother was self conscious about it.
My maternal grandmother died ten years before I was born. This dream was my first clue. It is possible she was sharing her consciousness with me but I have received many more clues since that suggest a past life as the explanation.
Because Lorelei's past life dream involved a family member, some might assume genetics accounted for the dream. The memory might have passed down like brown hair color. Although this could be true, scientists don't know everything yet about genetic influences.
As you might expect, more stories of reincarnation either in dreams or awake occur in cultures which accept it as a philosophical idea or as part of the religion, for example, Buddhism, Hinduism, as well as some practitioners of Christianity, Islam, and Judaism.
Announcing dreams happen in many of those cultures. The pregnant woman or a member of her family dreams a family member intends to return as the newborn. Often the newborn is named for the returning family member. Sometimes the newborn carries a birthmark or other identifying mark that matches the previous personality's birthmark or other wound.
Research has supported some of these stories. Ian Stevenson wrote a book on the subject called Reincarnation and Biology.
The study of reincarnation has been one of my passions. Although I have had dreams that might include past life content, none contained much detail. As part of my personal serch, I've written a series of novels where the main character evolved from a reincarnation memory of a lifetime I lived in England in the 1700s. I knew place names but not enough detail to verify through records, however I felt a strong emotional connection to the woman, who ran an inn and was abandoned by her husband.
My friend Susan, an acupuncturist, dreamed a similar scenario although she knew the other person in her dream. She dreamed she was a peasant woman in Russia around the turn of the twentieth century. As she hoed crops in a field, a strong man abducted her and kept her prisoner, abusing her physically and sexually. She identified the abductor as the man she was dating in her present life.
When Susan told her boyfriend about the dream, he confessed to having a passion for Russian music although he had never been to Russia. A love relationship did not grow from this reincarnation--type experience, but the two remained friends for many years. Susan enjoyed the friendship and felt emotional catharsis from it as if the man had needed to atone and she allowed it.
Whether the past life information presents in dreams or in waking life, much research has been conducted on cases involving children by investigators at the University of Virginia. In hundreds of cases children gave correct details about a previous lifetime, information they could not have known through ordinary means.
The past life material might present as nightmares, particularly in young children.
The small son of Bruce and Andrea Leininger had recurring nightmares involving a plane crash. Eventually they learned he believed himself to be a World War II fighter pilot who crashed in the Pacific. .<br />
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They verified information the boy provided about the previous lifetime and wrote a book about their discoveries called Soul Survivor: The Reincarnation of a World War II Fighter Pilot. The Leininger boy was not related to the man whose past life he recalled. Such examples present more compelling evidence than ones like Lorelei's or mine..<br />
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As with the Leininger boy, reincarnation dreams or nightmares often reoccur in a way that forces the dreamer to attend to the problem. .<br />
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Psychologists and counselors use hypnotherapy as a technique. They hypnotize and regress their patients to the previous lifetime. Sometimes the problem is resolved by greater self-understanding, whether or not verification in records is possible. .<br />
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My experience about the woman in England came at a time in my life when I had divorced and needed to establish myself as a high-functioning single person. I drew strength from her personality and confidence that I could make it on my own..<br />
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If a past life dream comes to you unbidden, there is probably some unresolved issue in your present life provoking it. Look for similarities and differences between the dreamed lifetime and your present circumstance. Think through what you could learn if the past life personality were a teacher, helping you find new ways to express yourself in this lifetime..<br />
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Here's a Tip
• If you've had a dream that has some of the characteristics of a past life memory, ask your dreaming self for more details like names of people, places, or important events. Do an Internet search for what you discover.
• If you've never had such a dream, ask for one. Your dreaming self is always there.Toby Fesler Heathcottehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09304240570140750270noreply@blogger.com32tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8915339152813964321.post-46924160422747051832012-04-02T08:36:00.000-07:002012-04-02T08:36:24.121-07:00Precognition, TelepathyFor several years I kept an aquarium in my living room. One night as I lay in my bedroom sleeping, I dreamed the fish named Goldie fell with a thud against the aquarium floor. Startled, I awakened and went to the living room to see if she was all right. Goldie was swimming around looking just fine.<br />
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The next day Goldie got hung up in the plastic leaf decorations. I set her free and she plunked to the bottom just like in my dream although without making a thudding sound. The fish died later that day.<br />
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This is a typical example of a precognitive dream. It was literal in the sense that I saw in the dream substantially the same image I saw in waking life. Although some precognitive dreams take longer to come true, most do within twenty-four hours. Research indicates the same experience I've had personally.<br />
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The subject matter was mundane. Well for me, not for Goldie. The subjects of most precognitive dreams generally pertain to the ordinary events of our lives.<br />
These clear dreams predict by showing what looks like reality and give us tips about our waking life. For example, they give warnings, important or trivial, and rehearse alternate futures from which we can choose the same way we consider alternatives while we are making decisions while awake.<br />
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Precognitive dreams can be literal like the Goldie dream or symbolic like one I had about a plane crash on January 2, 2009. <br />
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I was jumping to safety from a plane crash. Those who had survived jumped into the sea and hoped for rescue aboard ship. I watched myself and others cannonball into the water, which was frigid. I awoke momentarily, realized I was in a dangerous situation, and felt afraid. My heart was thumping. I went back to sleep and dreamed the same scenario again two or three more times.<br />
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Over the next few days I dreamed of travel danger. <br />
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One day as I drove past Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport, my hands shook so much I considered getting off the freeway and stopping the car. Although I drove on home, my distress was so great that I cancelled my plans to go to New York City to visit a friend in March.<br />
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I interpret I was getting precognitive flashes of the U S Airways plane, which went down in the Hudson River on Jan. 17. U S Airways is headquartered in Phoenix, so that very plane could well have been sitting in the airport as I passed by and felt so much trepidation. My emotions, although important, served as secondary confirmation to my disaster dreams, specifically the terror of having to jump into the frigid water. <br />
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Normally I'm not afraid to fly, so this was an unusual circumstance for me. I honored the dreams and did not take the chance but have gone on other flights since, even U S Airways flights.<br />
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Besides literal dreams and symbolic dreams, other aspects of dreaming psi can occur. Psi is a general term to indicate any anomalous experience like precognition, telepathy, clairvoyance, or psychokinesis. It's not always obvious which faculty dreaming psi involves. One of my dreams might have been an example of precognition and telepathy.<br />
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I dreamed I ordered a floral arrangement, which consisted of a spray of flowers with a teddy bear. I don’t know who I was ordering for, but definitely a family member.<br />
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Four months later my sister had surgery. I asked my granddaughter, Emily, to go on a flower delivery website and pick out something she thought my sister would like so we could send a gift to the hospital. <br />
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On her own, Emily picked a floral spray with a teddy bear and balloon. So perhaps I dreamed the future, but telepathy might also explain what happened. Perhaps Emily tapped into my conscious thought or my dream memory. She has on several occasions said what I was thinking. Maybe I subconsciously sent her the message.<br />
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Such events happen frequently within families or with people who are close to each other. <br />
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Dr. Stanley Krippner, a medical doctor, did phenomenal research on telepathy in dreams at Maimonides Hospital in New York in the 1960s and 1970s. The experimenters assembled a collection of photographs of art prints. On the night of the experiment, the experimenter chose one art print and focused on sending the image telepathically to the dreamers. <br />
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The dreamers in the other room went to sleep with the directive to dream about the target art print chosen for the night. They wrote summaries of their dreams. Afterward independent judges were given all of the art print and dream summaries. Their task was to match the art prints with the dream summaries. The high number of hits, far beyond what would have been calculated by chance, showed dreamers dreamed about the target pictures.<br />
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The Ganzfeld protocol, developed in the 1930s, is still in use in psi laboratories. It attempts to measure waking telepathy where a sender sent a mental image of a photo or picture to a receiver who was blindfolded and listening to white noise. Over the years these results have consistently come in at one-third where chance would be one-fourth. The hits increase when the sender and receiver are close like husband and wife. <br />
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Research on psi began in the 1800s and continued through the 1900s with notables like J. B. Rhine and his wife, Dr. Louise Rhine, at Duke University. They studied precognition among other things. It's even going on today. <br />
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You can be a part of it online by going to these websites: noetic.org, gotpsi.org, aspr.com.<br />
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In history Calpurnia, the wife of Julius Caesar, had two dreams that prophesied his death by assassination. Plutarch recorded her dreams for posterity. Interestingly, one was a symbolic dream, that the pediment of their house collapsed. We could interpret Caesar himself being the pediment or pillar of their household. Calpurnia's other dream was literal, that Caesar was stabbed, and she wept over him as she held him, murdered, in her arms. If only Caesar had trusted his wife's dreams, he might have lived much longer. <br />
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In the Old Testament of the Bible there are several examples of psychic material in dreams and visions. Joseph had dreams that came true and could interpret the dreams of others. Samuel heard the voice of God in dreams. It would seem that interest in psi ability is ages old.<br />
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Perhaps we as the human race are developing our abilities in telepathy. Jeremy Taylor, author of Where People Fly and Water Runs Uphill and several other books on dreaming, believes that the human race is developing greater telepathic abilities. <br />
Taylor suggests that in our evolutionary past humans dreamed together to develop language. If that's possible, then perhaps we are developing our telepathic abilities now for the next stage of our evolution.<br />
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Often when we recall dreams we have the experience of seeing an image of a person in our dream. That person communicates with us despite the fact that his mouth does not move. We just seem to know what he means without his using language. We seem to operate telepathically in our dreams, perhaps helping ourselves to become more telepathic in the waking state. <br />
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Regardless, one thing we know for sure is that we can provoke our own precognitive and telepathic dreams. If you intend to have a precognitive dream and ask your dreaming self to assist, chances are you'll be successful. The better record you keep of your dreams, the greater the chance you'll find successful demonstrations. <br />
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Here's a Tip<br />
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• Ask a partner to select some dynamic looking photos from a magazine. Have him focus on one each night while you attempt to dream about the subject. Then compare your dream notes to the pictures used. You can make it more complex by inviting a third person to judge the dream stories and match them to the photos. <br />
• Set a time for one person to send a telepathic message in words or an image from a picture to another person. Generally images that evoke emotions work better. Make sure you are in separate locations. Then compare your pictures or stories to the target image.<br />
• Ask your dreaming self for a precognitive dream of something that will happen the next day. Write the dream down as soon as you awake so you'll have evidence for a demonstration.<br />
• Set up a precognition dream study with interested friends. For example, "At 6 am (PDT)Pacific daylight time on the morning of Nov. 3 I will shuffle a deck of regular playing cards. Then I will turn up the top card." Your task is to see in your dream or intuition which card I will turn up. Feel free to submit entries anytime up until the drawing.<br />
• Try your hand at games on psiarcade.com, noetic.org, gotpsi.org, and aspr.com.Toby Fesler Heathcottehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09304240570140750270noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8915339152813964321.post-59130398412584929832012-01-06T14:54:00.001-08:002012-04-02T08:32:15.314-07:00PSYCHIC CLOSET WINS A SHARP WRIT AWARDOUT OF THE PSYCHIC CLOSET A THREE-TIME WINNER<br />
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Out of the Psychic Closet won second place in nonfiction in the 2011 Sharp Writ Awards. The awards just released by Smart Book Lovers are sponsored in part by Mensa International, book-awards.org. The book, by author Toby Fesler Heathcotte of Glendale, AZ, has won two other awards of excellence this past year. It was a Global Ebook finalist in nonfiction and a finalist in the EPIC ebook competition.<br />
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Out of the Psychic Closet: The Quest to Trust My True Nature is a self-help handbook in two parts that will show the reader how to step out of the psychic closet, to rise above anxiety and distrust, and to incorporate psychic abilities into a more honest model of personal reality. The first part narrates the author's psychic experiences. The second part details scientific research, historical background, and previously unpublished anecdotes of the paranormal. The second part also includes print and web resources.<br />
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Out of the Psychic Closet, published by Twilight Times Books, is available for sale in multiple ebook formats as well as in paperback on Amazon.com and bn.com. Look for further information in the media kit at tobyheathcotte.com.Toby Fesler Heathcottehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09304240570140750270noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8915339152813964321.post-52172928258341894842011-12-10T07:06:00.000-08:002011-12-10T07:06:28.046-08:00Healing in DreamsPeople have asked for healing dreams as far back as written records. Results came in dreams to the ancient Egyptians. Aristotle spoke of them in early Greece. From those days until now, sick people have wanted to experience a healing dream and believed it could happen.<br />
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Our minds affect our bodies, as demonstrated in modern times by hypnosis and biofeedback where patients modify their blood pressure, dissolve warts, stop the growth of cancerous cells, among other changes. <br />
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Scientific experiments have proven the placebo effect works, that is, one third of the time patients get well when they only take sugar pills rather than medication. Unfortunately the reverse happens too, and a person can sicken from the belief that he has been poisoned when he has not been. This is why curses sometimes work or why a patient dies from a misdiagnosis or from the doctor's statement that no one can recover from such an ailment.<br />
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There are three types of healing dreams: <br />
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First, dreams that show a problem developing in the dreamer's physical body. For example, a woman dreams she buys a pair of shoes that are mismatched; one has a flat heel the other a three-inch spike. Later she learns her shoes have caused her hip pain. <br />
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Second, dreams that prescribe a medicine, foods, or other regimen. For example, a man with painful dry eye dreams a cop stops his car and gives him a ticket for wearing sunglasses in a dark tunnel, citing him for not following the rules. The same scenario happens over and over. The dreamer can't understand why the cop is angry. Once he awakens the man remembers eye drops prescribed as a cautionary by his doctor in case of a problem. He starts using the eye drops, and the pain goes away.<br />
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Last, dreams that cure the condition directly. Some of these categories can overlap in the same dreams. <br />
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Barbara Menezes-Ferreira of Portugal relates a dream that cures. The dream story is complex and includes a mutual dream, a near-death experience, and a cure. Here is the dream in her own words:<br />
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Over twelve years ago, back when I was still married, my husband was dying in hospital in a coma.<br />
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The doctors had said he had no hope at all. His blood count was way too low and he was hemorrhaging. My reaction was and I quote what I told the doctors, "You don't know him. He's the kind of person that will do exactly the opposite of what you are thinking." They looked at me with a certain pity. I left him there because you cannot stay with the patient overnight in a public hospital. I picked up my daughters at school and took them home. I remember my mother-in-law calling me asking what the doctors had said and I replied, "He's going to be fine," without even thinking.<br />
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That night I dreamed I awoke with someone screaming my name over and over again. I sat up in bed and saw my husband standing at the foot of the bed.<br />
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I asked him, "What do you want?"<br />
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He replied that he didn't know if he should stay or if he should go.<br />
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I calmly explained that was his choice. If he wanted to leave, I would take care of our daughters and they would be fine, but if he chose to stay, he would suffer. He would have to change his life, and he would have to stop drinking. I could understand that this would be a big sacrifice, so I told him, "It's really up to you".<br />
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He disappeared then and I went back to sleep.<br />
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The following morning my brother-in-law came to pick me up to drive me into town for visiting hours. He was very concerned that his brother would not make it. I said I thought he would pull through because I had had a strange dream that had in some way told me he would be ok. My brother-in-law had no reaction whatsoever.<br />
I arrived at the hospital and only three people could see my husband for just a few minutes. I told my mother-in-law to go in first. She came out very distressed and told us she thought he was going. I then told his brother to go in. He came out crying and shaking his head. Then I went in and saw my husband lying in bed asleep.<br />
I kissed his forehead and he woke up and said, "Please tell me the truth. Am I dying?" <br />
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I smiled and said "No. You were but you aren't anymore."<br />
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The doctor called in the other doctors and they started to ask him questions: "What day is it? Do you know where you are?."<br />
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Two weeks later he was out of hospital.<br />
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Almost six months after, we were going for a walk, and he told me that he had seen a tunnel and a light and that he had gone towards the light, and as he was walking he had a long conversation with someone he thought was God where he was given a choice to stay or to go. He decided to stay because of the children.<br />
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The conversation he described was exactly the one I had had in my room. At the time I started to laugh and he thought I didn't believe him. I just told him that I had had a dream exactly like the one he was describing.<br />
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Any analysis of Barbara's dream and her husband's dream will likely mention they experienced a shared dream, in other words, they dreamed the same scenario. The husband's dream includes the popular dynamic of the near-death experience: the light, the tunnel, and the decision to live. His is a particularly revealing segment.<br />
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The husband's dream resulted in a cure of his condition. <br />
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Think a minute about a time you've healed, whether from a mosquito bite, a burn, or the flu. Perhaps you applied salve and bandaged yourself. Perhaps you visited a doctor. Perhaps not. <br />
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In all cases, who was the healer? The inner you. You probably had dreams that helped you heal even if you didn't recall them.<br />
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Although we all have this skill, some people need help developing it consciously. Some psychologists, including Ed Kellogg, offer workshops to teach health professionals and regular dreamers how to heal through dream work. <br />
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Here's a Tip<br />
• The next time you have any ailment, from a cold to something serious, consult a medical practitioner if you normally would, but augment that visit with requests to your dreaming self to bring you healing dreams. <br />
• Your dreaming self will definitely oblige.<br />
• Oh, and ask to remember the dreams too. They are most empowering and among the most compelling evidence for the value of dreaming.Toby Fesler Heathcottehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09304240570140750270noreply@blogger.com0